In America, nearly one in four children is an immigrant or was born to immigrant parents. Our classrooms are meeting a growing influx of students who speak little to no English, who are unfamiliar with American culture, and, in some cases, who lack formal education. The fate of these young immigrants is at the core of America’s continually emerging identity.

Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple-choice questions. A student who shows a high level of mastery of an ALEKS course will be successful in the actual course she is taking.

Strengthens the capacity of refugee-serving and mainstream organizations across the U.S. to ensure the successful development of refugee children, youth, and their families by increasing information sharing and promoting collaboration at the local, state, regional, and national levels.

This website is full of apps and links for teachers to use with English langauge learners. Dr.Collier is the author of the website and wrote the book "Separating Differences from Disabilities". The book is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in learning more about ELLs.

Kahoot is a fun interactive website for you to assess your student's comprehension in your classroom. Kahoot is free and there are already teacher made games established for the content classrooms. Just create your free account and select a game. You can add to any of them or create your own! Students will need some form of technology to play along.

When students first start school, they need to know key phrases and expressions that they can use to communicate with teachers and classmates during the school day. Being able to communicate effectively with others is key for learning to take place. Through meaningful and fun interactions, students can develop the type of everyday communication skills that facilitate learning.

In this article written for Colorín Colorado, Jennifer Himmel of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) provides an overview of how to use language objectives in content-area instruction for English learners. Her overview includes:

what a language objective is

steps that teachers can take to create language objectives

how to implement language objectives in a general education classroom

how to align objectives to content and language standards

ideas and resources on how to support teachers as they become familiar with this practice.

News in levels is a great resource. The website provides current events and is broken down by reading levels. When you pull up the site, make sure you know your student's ACCESS report for reading. There are worksheets tha accompany some of the articles and can be utilized for reading comprehension.

This website is specific to the math classroom. If you are a math teacher and have a student who has limited English proficiency, then this is the website for you! The website explains different academic vocabulary in different topics in multiple languages.

Teacher Compass is a great online tool for teachers to find English Language learner activities to incorporate into their content classrooms. Strategies are categorized by content area and grade level as well as connected to common core standards.

This article explains why you see your EL in the hallway speaking English to their friends, but comes into your classroom and doesn't understand what you say. Great read for teachers with active ESL's in their classroom.

WIDA advances academic language development and academic achievement for linguistically diverse students through high quality standards, assessments, research, and professional development for educators.